Micromax Canvas Knight A350 with 5-inch 1080p display, Octa-Core processor, 16MP camera announced in Russia

Micromax Canvas Knight A350

Micromax Canvas Turo A250 is the company’s latest flagship, and the Canvas Turbo Mini A200 would launch soon. Micromax entered into the Russian market earlier this week with its Canvas line-up. It had also announced the Canvas Knight A350 in Russia, as reported by PCMag.Ru. It has a 5.0-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display, powered by a 2 GHz octa-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It features a 16-megapixel auto focus rear camera with LED Flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Knight A350 with 5-inch 1080p display, Octa-Core processor, 16MP camera announced in Russia”

Micromax Canvas Turbo Mini A200 with 4.7-inch HD display, Android 4.2 gets priced at Rs. 14490

Micromax Canvas Turbo Mini A200

Micromax Canvas Turbo Mini A200 that was leaked recently, has been listed on Flipkart. It has a 4.69-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) display, powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor and runs on Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). It has a 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with dual SIM support with dual standby and packs a 1800 mAh battery. Continue reading “Micromax Canvas Turbo Mini A200 with 4.7-inch HD display, Android 4.2 gets priced at Rs. 14490”

LG G Pro 2 with 6-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM rumored to debut at MWC 2014

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Rumors about the LG G3 surfaced last month, which is expected only in the second half of 2014. As the MWC nears , more rumors have started flowing in about LG’s upcoming devices. The LG G Pro 2 phablet with a 6-inch full HD display is expected to be unveiled next month, according to Korea’s ETNews. The LG Optimus G Pro had a Snapdragon 600 processor and 2GB of RAM, the G Pro’s successor is expected to come with a Snapdragon 800 processor, similar to the LG G2 and would have 3GB of RAM to compete with the Note 3. It would run on Android 4.4 KitKat out of the box and have LTE-A support for select markets such as Korea. Continue reading “LG G Pro 2 with 6-inch 1080p display, 3GB RAM rumored to debut at MWC 2014”

Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 Live Chat and Discussion

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We are back with our askFA discussion and live chat. This week’s askFA discussion is all about the recently launched Samsung Galaxy Grand 2. Samsung launched the Galaxy Grand 2 (G7102), the company’s latest mid-range smartphone last month, which went on sale in India last week at Rs. 22,999. We already brought you the Grand 2 unboxing, benchmarks, photo gallery and the camera samples of the device. We have also pushed out some gameplay videos and gaming review of the Galaxy Grand 2 over at our YouTube Channel. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 Live Chat and Discussion”

BSNL and MTNL reportedly launching free roaming plans starting January 26th

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BSNL, State Owned Telecom Operator and MTNL would launch new free roaming plans starting from January 26th, according to a recent report from TOI. Videocon Mobile Services was the first operator in India to offer incoming calls free while on roaming on their own network by default, without any processing fee or a special tariff voucher. It also launched new packs later that offer free incoming calls while roaming on other networks. Other operators joined in with cheaper roaming plans starting with free incoming calls while roaming. Continue reading “BSNL and MTNL reportedly launching free roaming plans starting January 26th”

Viber 4.2 for Android gets number blocking, customized sounds and more

Viber 4.2 for Android

Viber for Android has been updated to version 4.2 that brings new features including option to block any number or your stored contact, customize incoming call and message tones and lots more new features. Viber introduced, Viber Out, a new a new feature to its entire user base last month that lets you make calls to any landline or mobile number.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Android 4.4.2 KitKat update starts rolling out in India

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Android 4.4.2 KitKat

Samsung has started rolling out the Android 4.4.4 (KitKat) update for the Galaxy Note 3 in India. The Snapdragon-variant of the Note 3 got the Android 4.4.2 update, starting from Poland last week. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 was launched in India back in September last year running on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). All the new Samsung Galaxy TabPRO tablet series runs on Android 4.4 out of the box. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Android 4.4.2 KitKat update starts rolling out in India”

Nokia sends out invite for MWC 2014

Nokia is all ready to be acquired by Microsoft and it has probably held its final independent event at Abu Dhabi during late 2013. The CES 2014  was over a couple of weeks ago and there was no presence of the Finnish company. Nokia usually waits for the MWC to make itself known and it has sent out invites for this year’s event confirming that it will be there to take wrap of a few devices.

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Samsung reports profit of $7.73 billion in Q4 2013 with 9% decrease in mobile revenue

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Samsung just reported its Q4 earnings for 2013, in which the company has managed to make operating profit of 8.31 trillion won ($7.73 billion) for the quarter ended December 31st.  It has reported net profit of 7.30 trillion won (~US$$6.8 billion) and revenues of 59.28 trillion won, up from 59.08 trillion won in the third quarter. Mobile phone sales accounted for 32.17 trillion won, which is 9-percent down compared to the previous quarter. Operating profits in the mobile sector were 5.47 trillion won, down by 18% compared to Q3 2013. Continue reading “Samsung reports profit of $7.73 billion in Q4 2013 with 9% decrease in mobile revenue”

Xolo Q3000 Photo Gallery

Xolo Q3000 is the latest flagship from the company. It comes with a huge 5.7inch Full HD display and is powered by the infamous MediaTek MT6589T quad-core processor. One of its huge selling points is its big display and its huge 4000mAh battery. We recently unboxed the device and brought you the camera samples. Today we will be bringing you the photo gallery of this huge device.

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Qualcomm acquires a big patent portfolio from HP

In a recent move by Qualcomm to gain advantage in the smartphone market, it acquired patents of Palm Inc and iPaq smartphone among the other patents from HP. The total number of patents involved in the acquisition include 1,400 granted patents and pending patent applications from the United States and about 1,000 granted patents and pending patent applications from other countries that include China, England, Germany, Japan and South Korea. However, there was no word on the price that Qualcomm gave for the patents.

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Basemark OS II Benchmark Performance – Android vs iPhone vs Windows Phone

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Rightware launchedthe Basemark OS II cross-platform benchmarking tool for Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Phone 8 earlier this week, here we have the benchmark comparison . Even though it uses OpenGL ES2 for Android and iOS devices and DirectX 11 for Windows Phone 8, it runs all tests with the same code in the same language and engine centralizes all user-interface elements in its internal rendering module, to make the benchmark reliable among operating systems. Check out the Basemark OS II Performance Test results on Android, iPhone and Windows Phone 8 below. Continue reading “Basemark OS II Benchmark Performance – Android vs iPhone vs Windows Phone”

Nokia Lumia 525 Review

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Nokia Lumia 525 Review

When the Nokia Lumia 520 was launched at the Mobile World Congress event last year, not many knew that the company just introduced its first best seller in the Lumia series. It went on to become the most popular Windows Phone ever made, for the fantastic value it offered for the money. But there was one longstanding issue that Nokia had to fix, the small amount of RAM that denied a lot of people new games and apps that were trickling down to Windows Phone.

So, in the series of upgrades that Nokia delivered to existing hardware with small changes, aka adding a 5 to the model number and re-releasing it, we now have the Lumia 525 that fixes the one issue that most wanted fixed. Hence the Lumia 525 comes with 1 GB of RAM and a minor look and feel refresh but overall retains everything else about the Lumia 520 because may be Nokia thought “why fix something that isn’t broke?”. So, how does the Lumia 525 match up to the newly re-invigorated competition, and what does the 1 GB of RAM bring? Let’s find out in our in depth review.

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Samsung Galaxy S III Neo+ Dual SIM Smartphone with Android 4.3 goes official in China

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Samsung Galaxy S III Neo+ (GT-I9300I) that got certified in Tenna and FCC last month has gone official in China through Samsung website listing. It has dual SIM support with dual standby and runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) out of the box. Other features are similar to the Galaxy S3 including a 4.8-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD Super AMOLED display, 1.4 GHz quad-core processor, 8-megapixel rear camera and a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera. It is 8.6mm thick and weighs 132 grams.  Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S III Neo+ Dual SIM Smartphone with Android 4.3 goes official in China”

SwiftKey Note for iOS leaked

One of the best things about Android is the ability to replace whatever you don’t like – keyboards and launchers for example. iOS has always been, is and will be a closed environment without allowing users to replace their on-screen keyboards among many other things. SwiftKey, one of the very popular Keyboard applications on the Android platform, has been repeatedly asked by its fan-base to develop something for the iOS despite the restriction being on Apple’s side.

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